[issue2941] qclone fails with latest Mercurial (but works with version 1.8.4) on Windows (either x64 or x86)

[JD]

New submission from JD <jd.fagan at gmail.com>:

See https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/issue/1055/qclone-fails-with-
latest-mercurial-bundled

PS C:\Users\JDFagan\Repositories> hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.9+10-e9264b45237d)
(see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)

Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Matt Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
PS C:\Users\JDFagan\Repositories> hg qclone 
https://bitbucket.org/boomfish/hgsubversion-layout-hacks
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 822 changesets with 1810 changes to 199 files
abort: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 
:\Users\JDFagan\Repositories\hgsubversion-layout-hacks/.hg/patches
PS C:\Users\JDFagan\Repositories>

However, installing Mercurial 1.8.4 and running via commandline succeeds:

PS C:\Users\JDFagan\Repositories> hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.8.4)
(see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)

Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Matt Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
PS C:\Users\JDFagan\Repositories> hg qclone 
https://bitbucket.org/boomfish/hgsubversion-layout-hacks
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 822 changesets with 1810 changes to 199 files
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 5 changesets with 8 changes to 4 files
updating to branch default
C:\Users\JDFagan/.hgignore: ignoring invalid syntax 'regex'
3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
C:\Users\JDFagan/.hgignore: ignoring invalid syntax 'regex'
160 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
PS C:\Users\JDFagan\Repositories>

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title: qclone fails with latest Mercurial (but works with version 1.8.4) on Windows (either x64 or x86)

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